A class of middlemen or fish-jobbers in Billingsgate Market, who get a living by bummareeing, i.e. buying parcels of fish from the salesmen, and then retailing them. A corruption of bonne marée, good fresh fish, or the seller thereof. According to the Dictionnaire de lAcadémie, marée means toute sorte de poisson de mer que nest pas salé. Bonne marée, marée fraiche.